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Hi everyone, you're the C2. After hours, I'm young me. I'm Felix. And I'm here. And we're going to talk about shopping and retail.

Are you guys finicky shoppers? The pens, right? So if I buy a bicycle, I'm super finicky. Furniture. I'm very choosy. Clothing, not so much.

Like once I find something that I like, I bought like the same sneakers like five times in a row. I always buy multiple shoes. Like I find a shoe well like buying one seems such a mistake.

You buy backups. I like this. And therefore I've been very for four or five years. I try to like concentrate all my shopping as much as possible. Like I went to an outlet and I bought like two years worth of clothes.

And I just don't want to go shopping ever again. What about you? What do you do? You know, I'm a simple person. I don't like to shop. But if I have to shop, I'm finicky.

What's the category you're least finicky about? I'm least finicky. Okay, I'm finicky about most things. I will say one thing I love about shopping is not actually shopping. But it's like a pulse on the economy and a pulse on the world and on consumer trends.

Like I actually don't particularly like shopping for things for myself. But like if you ask me, do you want to go check out this new mall? I kind of get into that because I'm curious about what's going on.

Oh, it's a window into culture. Like if you go to a stationary store in Tokyo, you get a window into that culture.

One of the first things I do when I go to a country I've never been in within a day, for sure, I'm in a grocery store. I find grocery stores so interesting.

Or a convenience store or their version of a 7-Eleven. I completely agree.

Because it tells you everything you need to know. It's a whole world. What else?

So we are going to spend the episode talking about the trends we are keeping an eye on in retail and shopping. Should be fun.

So young me, what's your first trend?

Oh, you want me to go first?

Yes.

So I am obsessed with thinking about social commerce models right now.

Oh, okay.

So if you think about the first generation of e-commerce platforms, players like Amazon, Etsy, eBay, and Shopify.

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